[members-discuss] RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2025 Open House: Recording and Slides Available

Moin,

> > An appropriate audit procedure should be implemented, and this
> > issue
> > should be addressed and regulated.

This discussion has been gravitating around putting _additional_ tasks
in the form of being the 'address usage police' on the NCC for some
time now.

Any form of de-allocation (and we are not even talking LEGACY here, see
what is going on in ARIN) is a significant administrative process.
Furthermore, no matter how _I_ view addresses (as non-property, of
course), many entities actually _do_ view them as property. As such,
starting any kind of endeavor of de-allocation is just a sure-shot way
of ensuring close to eternal job security for civil litigation lawyers
in the NCC region; With the associated additional costs to be
shouldered by the membership.

However, instead of trying to solve the _social_ problem of IPv4
"keeping without necessarily needing" with some form of policy-legal-
hammer, we could also just solve the _technical_ problem of IPv4
scarcity by rolling out IPv6 (as imperfect as it may be).

I would bet my whole v4 allocation that--on societal scale, and even
when considering rather slow moving enterprises and complex legacy
setups--globally rolling out v6 everywhere is _significantly_ cheaper
than the long tail of litigation any form of deallocation would drag
along.

With best regards,
Tobias

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Dr.-Ing. Tobias Fiebig
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M tobias at fiebig.nl